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White House says Canadian PM ‘caved’ to Trump demand to scrap tech tax

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Mark Carney and Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Alberta earlier this month. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

The United States has said that Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, “caved” to demands from the White House after his government abruptly scrapped their digital services tax on US technology companies, which was set to go into effect on Monday.

“It’s very simple. Prime Minister Carney and Canada caved to President [Donald] Trump and the United States of America,” the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said in a daily briefing.

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